Oh cool, I can get away with replying to an 8 year old post here. Within reason. Like, imagine a thread started in the last week and you reply "Oh, cool, thanks for the information!" It's pretty much against the rules (See #6 - the one about posting "This!" or "Quoted for T...

Can't villains just be villains anymore? It just seems like these movies today just try way too hard to give the guy wanting to mass murder a motive that is somehow relate-able and reasonable. The problem is, no reasonable person (entity, god, whatever) looks at a problem and thinks "This is t...

The film itself was a Quest film following the Monomyth like a checklist, which is fine. Parts of that require exposition, to let the audience know what is going on and how that ties in to the history of this fictional place. That is also fine. However, I'm about 95% certain that the scriptwriter ha...

Hmm. What is the cost to lay coaxial cable, per foot? Like, if a town has 500 miles of streets, how much would it cost for the city to conect everyone to the internet, should internet become like water/sewer and mandatory for all homes but only like, $5/m due to, you know, being much easier to inst...

I mean, the only way my mother is getting a decent connection is if we pony up the cash to run the line ourselves as the Telcom sure as hell isn't going to run a quarter-mile trench across private property farmland for one house.

Not suprisingly, about a month *after* the wireless project started, suddenly both the local cable and telcom were offering much better internet speeds than the wireless could do (another reason it had problems staying afloat when in City hands). Astounding how that works. Not your point, but a wir...

So, given that experience, would you recommend it to other towns? Or just for rural desolate places? I'd recommend it, yes, with the proper warning that the local telcomm/cable co is going to drop it's rates by half and/or double their speeds magically* as soon as you get serious about it. *I say M...

This isn't really something new. My hometown has been doing this since 2003. (After I'd moved away of course...) https://www.ci.sandy.or.us/SandyNet/ As I recall it was originally because the big ISP's like comcast refused to serve the rural areas around town so they decided to do it themselves. My...

Being the bored me, I counted all the eve's. It's a total 364 of them. Feel free to review it, but given the fact that I counted it again to check myself you probably don't have to. That makes me wonder: why is the second day of last year's Christmas his favorite (ignoring the 25% chance of it bein...

Ban the poster I had an extensive conversation with to verify humanity and all that, before then approving the post? Look, I may be a rage-filled hate goblin, but I’m a consistent rage-filled hate goblin. And right now the only people runnin’ afoul of the rules are people complaining about the poste...

What is the evolutionary advantage to self-cleaning for a bundle of instinctual processes that is never in a situation to see it's reflection, like an underwater creature? The article is about "Do this species of fish have self-awareness?" while your post is about, "Why would this sp...

How much better? Is the increase worth the expense? Are there plans for follow ups? 5 years? 1 year? Quarterly? We all likely know many examples of “I did this in High School” folks who, 20 years later, have lost the muscle memory (and physical ability) to do certain things. Hell. There’s examples o...

It probably depends on what exactly you mean by self aware. If I make a robot that can take advantage of reflections to clean itself, does that automatically mean it is self aware? If yes, self awareness is trivially within the grasp of current technology. If no, is there any reason to believe evol...

I think it was both. 10 will do some error checking stuff behind the scenes - if it was "bad' out of the box and was going to die a bit before it should have, and 10 noticed this, it may have scheduled checks, defrags and such (the waking up after going to sleep part) which ran the drive more a...

I did have that thought too, once I'd made the post. And the timing isn't quite right either (Luther didn't nail his declaration up for a few more years, and it's also a bit off for something like Nicea). So will it hinge on who the last person to go to the Good Place actual...

512 years ago is 1506, which is when Martin Luther became a monk - that was a point where the Church was in a fair bit of turmoil, is it fair to suspect that the Bad Place was involved, maybe even taking measures to make people think too much about their morality? Seems real specific to one religio...

[...] this church routinely raises in excess of $1,000,000 for “missions”. To me that’s shocking. Sure, it’s only like $75 in donations from each parishioner because it’s a massive church, but still. That’s not an insignificant amount of money per person. The fact that they use it for evangelizing ...

If robots replace programmers still they need programmer for themselves, so into my opinion they can't replace fully. If the pattern becomes advanced then their is the possibilities of advance jobs for programmers. in last AI can not be as smart as human programmers to be successful. AI can work on...

RE:Mindy St. Claire I think it actually points out to fuckery by The Bad Place (that was almost accidentally revealed) - the point system has been rigged to keep people from going to the Good Place, but her remarkably specific set of circumstances meant she made enough to get over the hump i...

I just went to my relatives’ church’s Christmas performance (they’re in the choir) and holy shit, Southern Baptists certainly know how to put on a show. I’m talking a 350 person choir, a full orchestra, a performance artist, a drumline, and a rock band with professional quality lighting and sound a...

Unfolding Games seems to be the name of ones like A Dark Room, Kittens Game, Candy Box 1 & 2, Universal Paperclips, Frog Fractions, Sandcastle Builder.. games where gameplay starts out as one thing but then becomes something else entirely. I recently ran across Crank. A game about turning a cran...

There are also thousands (millions?) of musicians worldwide who live from one gig to to next and earn less than your average software developer. Nah. They're doing good if they make minimum wage. Maybe as a five member band, if you add up the entire income of all five members, you maybe can hit tha...

The movie industry is more difficult, but not much more. Just need office space and large warehouses for set building, something that's already in place in, say, Detroit. The one advantage that Cali has is the wide variety of terrain nearby, but that's becoming more of a moot point what with all mo...

Yeah, if you're getting Network Lost with that link (a direct link to the image of the then-current comic, still working on my end) then it's your end. If it's a phone or other device with cellular, you can try disconnecting from WiFi and connecting to the cellular network and see if that fixes it. ...

Perhaps I wasn't clear - I'm not saying people who believe one ridiculous theory reject all others. I'm saying that whatever fantastic narrative they've built (and the contradictory nature of several conspiracy theories) means that they're less likely to follow a singular leader because the odds of ...

Alright how about this, every time you see one of these, you put on gloves and pull the fire alarm. Eventually, they'll get the hint? Lots of cults have persecution complexes (THEY are keeping the truth from you!). Doing something like this just plays right in to how "The Man will do anything ...

You said it's impossible to be a cop and be a good person. Not in the sense of hyperbole, but in the literal 100% no exceptions sense. Also, cops don't send people to prison. That's just not what they do, that's what a judge does. Sure they do. And judges do too. Lawmakers who made stuff illegal in...

Sorry, I should have clarified that statement about the WiFi. Though - turn it off and see if that fixes it. What I was asking was "Are you connected to a corporate or other network that provides it's own DNS solution and may be using the DNS to filter out undesirable websites, as such the serv...